Organizational Symbolism / / ed. by Barry A. Turner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Guy B.,; Aktouf, Omar,; Brissy, Jacques F.,; Calás, Marta Β.,; Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara,; Edgren, Lars D.,; Finkelstein, Ellis,; Gagliardi, Pasquale,; Gahmberg, Henrik,; Grafton-Small, Robert,; Hill Ingersoll, Virginia,; Kahle, Egbert,; Konecki, Krzysztof,; Koss, Ellee,; Linstead, Stephen A.,; McGuire, Jean Β.,; Pihlajamäki, Klara,; Rosen, Michael,; Sievers, Burkard,; Strati, Antonio,; Travers, Andrew,; Turner, Barry Α.,; Witkin, Robert W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Turner, Barry A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: de Gruyter Studies in Organization ; 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (315 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of tables. List of figures --; Introduction --; Part I. Symbolic Aspects of Organizations --; Chapter 1. Painting Over Old Works: The Culture of Organization in an Age of Technical Rationality --; Chapter 2. Interrelations Between Corporate Culture and Municipal Culture: The Lüneburg Saltworks as a Medieval Example --; Chapter 3. Corporate Culture, the Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: A Quebec Experience --; Chapter 4. Dependency and Worker Flirting --; Chapter 5. Culture and Crisis Management in an English Prison --; Part II. Power as a Symbolic Domain --; Chapter 6. Zombies or People – What Is the Product of Work? Some Considerations About the Relation Between Human and Nonhuman Systems in Regard to the Socio-Technical-Systems Paradigm --; Chapter 7. Organizations as Networks of Power and Symbolism --; Chapter 8. Crashing in ’87: Power and Symbolism in the Dow --; Part III. Management, Consultancy, and Metaphor --; Chapter 9. Merchants of Meaning: Management Consulting in the Swedish Public Sector --; Chapter 10. Metaphor Management: On the Semiotics of Strategic Leadership --; Chapter 11. Culture and Management Training: Closed Minds and Change in Managers Belonging to Organizational and Occupational Communities --; Chapter 12. The 'Commando' Model: A Way to Gather and Interpret Cultural Data --; Part IV. Style and Aesthetics --; Chapter 13. The Collusive Manoeuvre: A Study of Organizational Style in Work Relations --; Chapter 14. Aesthetics and Organizational Skill --; Part V. Whole Organizations --; Chapter 15. Computers in Organizations: The (White) Magic of the Black Box --; Chapter 16. The Organizational Sensory System --; Chapter 17. The Dynamics of Organizational States of Being --; Part VI. Against Conclusions: Comments on Theory and Post-Modernism --; Chapter 18. Seeing Through: Symbolic Life and Organization Research in a Postmodern Frame --; Chapter 19. Organizational Bricolage --; Authors’ Biographical Notes --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110851618; 9783110635669
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110851618
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Barry A. Turner.